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It doesn't matter how much cold hard cash you pump into your game, there's always going to be the occasional glitch. In the case of Destiny 2, the newest seems to allow players to play the game as if it's a third-person shooter.

Posted onto Reddit, user Cheezus_Slice caught a clip of their own Titan-specific barrier ability being interrupted in a frantic Crucible firefight. What was likely meant as an attempt to give their team a possible defence ended up locking their camera in the third-person view it shifts to during the ability animation.

It doesn't last long - thanks to a couple of shots in the back by a flanking fireteam - but lasts long enough to more or less confirm the shift was here to stay. The clip doesn't progress past their death, so we can assume that was enough to fix the 'issue'.

But whether it's really that easy to replicate the bug is another story. Commentors were left wondering whether a permanent third-person mode would be viable, with most mentioning how this exact glitch could give players a real advantage in PvP thanks to 'corner peaking' present in actual third-person shooters. You can already experience this when using certain Super abilities, so it isn't hard to imagine how this could play out.

What are your thoughts on this? With PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds implementing separate gametypes for first and third-person play, is it something you'd like to see Bungie tackle with Destiny 2?

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soulless94

but i don't use mods...i don't ever use mods, and there weren't any that came with any of the pieces i'm trying to use, so...like, i ended up having to delete some matching armor in a set i had because destiny 2 was being stubborn and wouldn't let me power up

Violet

People are starved for these types of games DONE RIGHT! Emphasis again on done right. A loot grinder, first person shooter with co op. This is what people are looking for. A Halo mixed with Skyrim mixed with Space magic. Bungie has been mismanaging the franchise, and I’m not sure if some of the fault lies with Activision’s deadlines, but the decisions and attitude problems that have come out from this gaming company is appalling, abusive, and manipulative. Mismanagement from the developers have caused players to flee. It’s not players getting bored with these types of games at all. The gaming companies seem to be only in it for the sales potential now and that reads for a shallow gameplay experience. You can literally feel how much passion these devs have for the franchise by playing D2. It’s a shell. A ghost. I am assuming they need a good data scientist, or someone similar, to manage player feedback because community managers just don’t cut it anymore. The understanding of the players’ feedback is going to be solely dependent on the community managers’ interpretation of player feedback/reviews (data). If they interpret the feedback/reviews wrong, and it is then lost in translation to the devs, those devs will always be getting it “wrong”. Bungie has been getting it wrong for 3 years. At the end of year 3 people were finally happy. Why? The devs stopped being stubborn and gave the players what they had been asking for for 3 years. Then they dropped the entire content gained in D1. Bungie didn’t replace that content with D2 but instead repeated what they did with Vanilla Destiny. If you want a satisfying Destiny experience I suggest not buying the game until year 3 again because it will take about that long to replace all the content they dropped from the franchise. Absurd! No wonder people are leaving...

FaLlCHiLD

One of the main problem people had with the first one was that the SP was really lacking in general. I did love the cutscenes in the Destiny 2, it made me want more and more. I am hoping in the DLC we can get more but who knows.

Josh Brown

BrokenNoah

12 hours? That's roughly 80 hours in BrokenNoah time. I'm bad at finishing campaigns. If it's RPG or sandbox, I'll grind or just wander off aimlessly. If it's a closed, directed experience, I'll hold off from finishing it then decide to restart the campaign for some stupid reason then set it aside for a while again, play some other game, before actually completing it.